Method for performing IR spectroscopy measurements to quantify a level of UV effect

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EP 2 138 830 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	03.04.2013 Bulletin 2013/14

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	30.12.2009 Bulletin 2009/53

(21)	Application number: 09251571.7

(22)	Date of filing: 16.06.2009

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Int. Cl.:

G01N 21/35 ^(2006.01)
G01N 17/00 ^(2006.01)

G01N 21/84 ^(2006.01)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL BA RS

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Priority:

28.06.2008 US 164026

(71)	Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
	Chicago, IL 60606-2016 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	Shelley, Paul H. Lakewood, WA 98498-3696 (US) LeRiviere, Diane R. Seattle, WA 98136 (US) Gross, Gwen M. Redmond, WA 98052 (US) Werner, Gregory J. Puyallup, WA 98374 (US)

(74)	Representative: McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell
	Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT London WC1X 8BT (GB)

(54)	Method for performing IR spectroscopy measurements to quantify a level of UV effect

(57) A method of non-destructively determining the amount of ultraviolet degradation of a surface and/or paint adhesion characteristics of the surface corresponding with UV damage including determining a physical property of a composite material/surfacing film by providing a series of composite materials/surfacing films which are subjected to increasing UV light experience to create a set of UV damage standards, collecting mid-IR spectra on those standards, performing data pre-processing and then multivariate calibration on the spectra of the composite materials/ surfacing films, and using that calibration to predict the UV damage for samples in question.